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April 2015

April 30, 2015

Arrests Resume As Moral Movement Continues

Two years ago this week, seventeen people were arrested on the first “Moral Monday,” sparking...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

A Palm Sunday Invitation to Holy Ground

A few weeks ago, I got to worship at First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama...

March 16, 2015

A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement

Since meeting Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, in the late 50s, Bob...

February 2015

February 07, 2015

If Past Is Prologue, Pay Attention to the Present

Now that it’s black history month, kids across American are learning about Frederick Douglass and...

January 2015

January 31, 2015

#RacialJusticeEpiphany: The Lord Will Raise a Prophet

I spent a few days this week away from Durham in another Southern town, visiting...

January 25, 2015

#RacialJusticeEpiphany: Radical Grace in a History of Race

Clarence Jordan, the Southern Baptist radical who started an inter-racial farming community in Southwest Georgia...

January 17, 2015

#RacialJusticeEpiphany: Listening in the Dark

This weekend, 47 years after Martin King’s death, America will pause to remember his life and...

January 11, 2015

#RacialJusticeEpiphany: Shine the Light on Inequality

Some years ago, when George W. Bush was president and some folks from Christian Peacemaker...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

A Midnight Clear: Hope in America’s Present Darkeness

For Christmas in 1849, when nearly four million people were enslaved in America, abolitionists introduced...

September 2014

September 11, 2014

No One Knows Enough

Since we opened a third home here at Rutba House(s) this summer, I’ve found myself...

August 2014

August 26, 2014

Sound the Shofar! Women Lead #MoralWeekofAction

In 14 state capitals across the US, faith and justice leaders are organizing a Moral...

August 25, 2014

Don’t Let Anyone Look Down on Your Youth: #MoralWeekofAction Day 4

In 12 state capitals across the US, faith and justice leaders are organizing a Moral...

August 24, 2014

Prayer for Day 3 of Moral Week of Action

This is the third daily meditation in a seven-part series of prayers for the Moral...

August 23, 2014

Prayer for Moral Week of Action: Day 2, Education

Since late spring of 2013, Rev. William J. Barber II and the HKonJ Coalition in...

August 12, 2014

Love Is the Final Fight

The first Tuesday in August is National Night Out in neighborhoods across urban America. Roadblocks...

August 05, 2014

Julia Dinsmore: Singing Freedom’s Song

I led a workshop in Minnesota last week for the good folks at Collegeville Institute. (If...

July 2014

July 27, 2014

Our Children’s March: What 1963 Can Teach US About the “Border Crisis”

As images of kids at the US/Mexico border continue to feed the 24-hour news cycle,...

July 20, 2014

Malaysia Flight 17: The Wreckage of Broken Promises

While the world mourns the devastating loss of nearly 300 lives and the shock of...

July 15, 2014

Go to Hell! God’s Gracious Word to American Christians

For every season, there is a message. "Do not be afraid." "Let my people go."...

July 12, 2014

The Kumbaya Moment of Costly Faith: Remembering Freedom Summer

On June 2, 1964, while hundreds of Freedom Summer volunteers were still finishing their training...

July 09, 2014

Note to the Church: All People Care About the “Weightier Matters of the Law”

Dear faithful, biblical sisters and brothers who are trying to follow Jesus in this time...

July 04, 2014

A New Birth of Freedom? Four Ways to Celebrate the 4th

When he was four score and seven years removed from the independence that America celebrates...

July 03, 2014

Dreaming Bigger Dreams

Fifty years ago this summer, as the Civil Rights Bill was signed by President Johnson...

July 01, 2014

10 Questions for the US Supreme Court

1) If corporations get a religious accommodation to deny contraception to their employees, can employees...

June 2014

June 14, 2014

Struggle for Racial Justice is Local

Since Michelle Alexander published The New Jim Crow in 2010, communities of color across America...

June 10, 2014

After Ten Years: A School for the World To Come

Ten years ago this month, Rutba House hosted a gathering of intentional Christian communities, scholars,...

June 08, 2014

Pentecost Power: The Spirit Moving Through Moral Mondays

Christian's around the world are celebrating Pentecost today, the birthday of the Church when the...

June 07, 2014

Remembering Maya Angelou, Warrior for Justice

By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II Today I am in Goldsboro, NC, witnessing the...

June 04, 2014

Laughing in Prison

To celebrate the five year anniversary of Project TURN's classes inside NC prisons, School for...

June 03, 2014

Slow Church: The Testimony of Beautiful Feet

Not long ago I was talking with a journalist about religious movements and my hope...

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